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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@acm.org>
Subject: reference for a "famous" quote about C and Ada?
Date: 1998/09/15
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Date: 1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00
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I've seen a quote, attributed to P.J. Plaugher and the "chair of the ANSI C
Committee", to the effect of

    Over 50,000 lines of code, you probably should be programming in Ada.

Is there a good, verifiable reference?

-- pat

Patrick Rogers
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